Shangwei Plugin House: An Urban Village

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Espiorg/Ubach Arquitectes [architects.]

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Computer filePublication details: urbanNext, April 09, 2019.Description: 400 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: The Shangwei Plugin Houses are renovated houses that are hundreds of years old, left vacant and in ruins for decades as Shangwei Village suffered from heavy disinvestment. The rapid urban expansion of nearby Shenzhen engulfed villages like Shangwei, turning them into urban villages, or rural islands surrounded by a sea of new development. Half of the properties in Shangwei lay abandoned as villagers fled in search of higher standards of living in neighboring areas.

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China (128) ,
Urban Legacy (107) ,
Shenzhen (17) ,
Renovation (39) ,
Project (1170) ,
Prefabrication (85) ,
Hybrid neighborhoods (5) ,
Housing (336) ,
Exploring Housing (24) ,
Energy (151)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Computer Files	urbanNext-Actar		Available

Middle Density, People’s Architecture Office (PAO), Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

China, Comfort, development, Efficiency, Energy, Exploring Housing, Housing, Hybrid neighborhoods, Neighborhood, Prefabrication, Project, Renovation, Shenzhen, Urban Legacy

Photography: People’s Architecture Office, Zhan Changheng

The Shangwei Plugin Houses are renovated houses that are hundreds of years old, left vacant and in ruins for decades as Shangwei Village suffered from heavy disinvestment. The rapid urban expansion of nearby Shenzhen engulfed villages like Shangwei, turning them into urban villages, or rural islands surrounded by a sea of new development. Half of the properties in Shangwei lay abandoned as villagers fled in search of higher standards of living in neighboring areas.

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